The 2016 Alabama Democratic presidential primary took place on March 1 in the U.S. state of
Alabama as one of the
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's primaries ahead of the
2016 presidential election
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On the same day, dubbed "
Super Tuesday,"
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were held in ten other states plus
American Samoa, while the
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held primaries in eleven states including their own
Alabama primary.
Opinion polling
Results
Primary date: March 1, 2016
National delegates: 60
Results by county
Analysis
After losing Alabama badly to
Barack Obama in
2008
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, Clinton bounced back eight years later to a 58-point routing against runner-up Bernie Sanders. Her landslide win in Alabama came from
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, who formed 54% of the Democratic electorate and backed Clinton over Sanders by a margin of 91–6. Clinton also won the white vote by a margin of 59–38.
Clinton carried every county in the state, but showed particular strength in the region in
Central Alabama known as the
Cotton Belt where the share of African American voters is highest, including the city of
Birmingham. She also showed strength in and around the city of
Mobile including
Mobile Bay, along the
Gulf Coast.
Clinton's Alabama victory was her second-highest in any state in the
2016 primary season.
After his landslide defeat, the Sanders campaign reported that Hillary Clinton had notched wins in
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including Alabama because Bernie Sanders did not compete with her, although this claim was widely debunked since Sanders had opened more campaign offices in the state before the primary.
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March 2016 events in the United States